Confederate flag designers worked to cram as much whiteness into it as they could

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Confederate flag designers worked to cram as much whiteness into it as they could

by kos at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/19/1394669/-Trying-to-cram-as-much-whiteness-as-possible-into-Confederate-flag#

"SNIP............


As its designer waxed poetic:

As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race ; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.

Another newspaper wrote in praise of the new design:

Bagby characterized the flag motif as the “Southern Cross” – the constellation, not a religious symbol – and hailed it for pointing “the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave” southward to “the banks of the Amazon,” a reference to the desire among many Southerners to expand Confederate territory into Latin America.

Alas, too many decided all that white, while a great symbol of their Whitey White McWhiterson, looked too much like the symbol of surrender—the white flag. So they decided to add a red bar (because it was the opposite of "Yankee Blue&quot and called it a day:


............SNIP"